Herein find the profound articulations of a rehabilitated hippy. A beacon for Age of Enlightenment values, classical liberalism, modern conservatism, capitalism, reason, secure borders and coastlines, sane immigration and education policy, official English, national unity, destigmatizing assimilation, and ardent support of the US military, law enforcement, and intelligence services.

They voted it on and I signed it out,But to let it be law you just can't bear,You read the words and began to pout.You've been obstructin' us for so long,We're drinkin' hemlock instead of beers.

And yet you keep on telling me,You ask me,You beg me,But there'll be no day,You'll be getting your way.Now don't be mad,'Cause two out of three branches ain't bad.Now don't be mad,'Cause two out of three branches ain't bad.

All our policies you've gone and overruled,And your outrageous conditions we can't meet.I know you're just waitin' out my termSo you can play me for a fool.'Cause at the ballots me you can't beat'Cause our demographics are holding firm.

You can try,But three more years in office still I've got,We'll hold out until you die.Then we'll be able to enforce some things,Some things that you've always fought.

We know that in college you were a doveAnd that patriots were your foe,But now the people you think you're aboveAre provin' how much you don't know.

We remember how you invented those rights,It was for our own good you said.And though we pleaded and begged youNot to snuff out those livesYou banged you gavel and said we're done for the day.

And yet you keep on telling me,You ask me,You beg me,But there'll be no day,You'll be getting your way.Now don't be mad,'Cause two out of three branches ain't bad.Now don't be mad,'Cause two out of three branches ain't bad.

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About me

I'm dostrick

From Texas, United States

The All Seeing Eye. A symbol of the Enlightenment and I like to think one day it will be a symbol of me.
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Middle-aged juvenile delinquent.
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Meyers-Briggs INTP if you follow that.
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My primary interests are in history, philosophy, languages, and literature. All the things that guarantee you'll never get a well-paying job.

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You can't run as a phony patriot and then claim your victory is a mandate for surrender.

--Ann Coulter--

If you kill them, they’re martyrs. If you lock them up, they’re martyrs. So kill them.

--Allahpundit--

The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.

--Ayn Rand--

There is not a truth existing which I fear or would wish unknown to the whole world.

--Thomas Jefferson--

For everyone but America the free world is mostly a free ride.

--Mark Steyn--

The fact is that political stupidity is a special kind of stupidity, not well correlated with intelligence, or with other varieties of stupidity. At the higher levels of the intelligentsia, the correlation may actually be inverse: the more brilliant you are, the stupider your politics. Albert Einstein seems to have thought well of Stalin; Hitlerism got its start in the universities.

--John Derbyshire--

One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.

--Robert A. Heinlein--

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile--hoping it will eat him last.

--Winston Churchill--

One day, our grandchildren may ask us what we did when Islamic fascism threatened the free world. Some of us will say we were preoccupied with fighting that threat wherever possible; others will be able to say they fought carbon dioxide emissions. One of us will look bad.

--Dennis Prager--

Nothing could be more jolting and discordant with the vision of today's intellectuals than the fact that it was businessmen, devout religious leaders and Western imperialists who together destroyed slavery around the world. And if it doesn't fit their vision, it is the same to them as if it never happened.

--Thomas Sowell--

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

--Calvin Coolidge--

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.

--Samuel Adams--

The flames kindled on the 4th of July 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them.

--Thomas Jefferson--

All government is an ugly necessity.

--G. K. Chesterton--

America learned the hard way: it's the world of September 10th that's really crazy.

--Mark Steyn

Public schools are forbidden from mentioning religion not because of the Constitution, but because public schools are the Left's madrassas.

--Ann Coulter--

We expect nothing from the MSM. It never disappoints us.

--Joe Guzzardi--

The world will not greet you with open arms, but with a clenched fist.

--Barry Goldwater--

Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families.

--Benjamin Rush--

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like a fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

--George Washington--

It should be the highest ambition of every American...to bear in mind that his conduct will not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity; but that its influence may be co-extensive with the world, and stamp political happiness or misery on ages yet unborn.

--George Washington--

"We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

--C. S. Lewis--

Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggy" until you can find a rock.

--Unknown--

"They must cast off the European skin, never to resume it. They must look forward to their posterity rather than backward to their ancestors."

--John Quincy Adams--

I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

-Benjamin Franklin--

There is nothing a nonconformist hates more than another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the existing standards of nonconformity.

--Unknown--

Male White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (W.A.S.P.) oppression must end.

--ER--

[I]n Her Majesty's northern Dominion the public health system is such an article of faith that no private hospitals are permitted: Canadaâs private health care system is called 'America'.

--Mark Steyn--

When I sell out, this is where the blogads will go. Please remember, it's not for me. It's for the children.

--ER--

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure,
than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray
twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

--Theodore Roosevelt--

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

--Unknown--

Tolerance is the virtue of a man without convictions.

-- G. K. Chesterton--

"A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel."